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Whatever instrument you are playing, you should study the history of the instrument from the very beginning. Many drummers think jazz drumming started with Elvin Jones and Jeff Watts. You have to find out where theses people learned from and go upstream from there. You can’t put student before the teacher. You have to start at the origin. Listen to Roy Haynes with Lester Young and Bud Powell. Listen to Art Taylor comp with his left hand like Bud Powell.
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010 |
New York Jazz
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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
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Sunday, 14 March 2010 |
 Paul Motian © T Bruce Wittett Paul Motian, the highly influential jazz drummer, composer and bandleader, presents a group with Jason Moran on piano and Greg Osby on saxophone called Three In One for six nights at the Village Vanguard from Tuesday, March 16th through Sunday, March 21st. Whether the name evokes the Holy Trinity or the popular bicycle chain lubricant, regardless these spirited musicians will surely mesh like a well oiled machine to propel music forward. The legendary Paul Motian has been a professional musician since 1954, and briefly played with pianist Thelonious Monk. He became well known as the drummer in pianist Bill Evans's trio. Subsequently he has played with pianists Paul Bley and Keith Jarrett and has also become a significant composer and band-leader.
Since the early 1980s Paul Motian has led a trio featuring guitarist Bill Frisell and saxophonist Joe Lovano, occasionally joined by bassists Ed Schuller, Charlie Haden or Marc Johnson, and other musicians, including Jim Pepper, Lee Konitz, Dewey Redman and Geri Allen. In addition to playing Motian's compositions, the group has recorded tributes to Thelonious Monk and Bill Evans, and a series of Paul Motian on Broadway albums, featuring original interpretations of standard tunes. |
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Written by Andrea Canter, Contributing Editor
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Friday, 12 March 2010 |
 Stanley Clarke©Andrea Canter Perennial festival producer George Wein has announced plans for the CareFusion Jazz Festival in New York City, June 17-26. With over 45 events across venues from Carnegie Hall in Manhattan to Barbes in Brooklyn, the festival encompasses ticketed shows and a free concert at SummerStage, supported by CareFusion. The SummerStage event at 7 pm on June 23rd will feature the McCoy Tyner Quartet with Esperanza Spalding, Francisco Mela and Ravi Coltrane, and the Stanley Clarke Trio with Hiromi and Lenny White. Carnegie Hall (ticketed) concerts include the Keith Jarrett Trio with Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette (June 17); Chris Botti (June 19); Joao Gilberto (June 22); and Herbie Hancock’s 70th Birthday (June 24). Tickets go on sale March 22nd. Selected schedule highlights: |
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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
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Sunday, 28 February 2010 |
 Bill Charlap On Tuesday, March 2nd through Sunday, March 7th Bill Charlap's long-standing trio featuring Peter Washington on bass and Kenny Washington on drums will perform at Dizzy's with sets at 7:30 & 9:30 p.m. nightly with an 11:30 p.m. set on Friday and Saturday. Charlap has been a recuring guest since he and his trio played the opening of Dizzy's in 2004. Charlap's influences reflect the seriousness with which he has studied the entire jazz lineage. "I admire the elegance of Tommy Flanagan, the harmonic language and bebop phrasing of Hank Jones, the linear aspects of Lenny Tristano. Then there are Teddy Wilson, Earl Hines, Art Tatum, Jimmy Rowles, Errol Garner, Thelonious Monk, Ellis Larkins, Oscar Peterson, Herbie Hancock, McCoy Tyner, Kenny Barron, Roger Kellaway, Bobby Timmons, Wynton Kelly, Red Garland. People usually think of Bill Evans as a harmonist and romantic, but I'm influenced by Bill the bebop player, the rhythm section player he was when he worked for Miles." |
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Written by Ronaldo Oregano
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Friday, 19 February 2010 |
 Andy Milne and Benoît Delbecq Composing Two masters of contemporary piano improvisation, Canadian Andy Milne and Frenchman Benoît Delbecq, are are continuing to visit select US and Canadian cities in a tour that that began on February 17th. The duo is performing concerts, conducting master classes and have already given a lecture at McGill University on the relationship between artistic expression and recording technology. They will perform at the Yamaha Piano Salon on February 23rd at 2:00 p.m.and at New York University at 8:00 pm.m on March 3rd. Released in 2009, their Songlines Recordings SACD/CD, Where is Pannonica?, was lauded by The New York Times as a "strangely beautiful new album" from two "resourcefully contemporary pianists, both drawn to quixotic interrogations of harmony and timbre." |
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